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In addition, Israel would receive 6 Saar missile boats to protect its offshore natural gas interests, which could face threats from Hezbollah and Hamas, including rocket attacks or offshore sabotage.

Details of the program were disclosed by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and German Defense Minister Ursula Von Der Leyen.

In the past, Germany’s ongoing sale of weapons to Israel has been criticized by anti-Israel activists.

In 2012, German writer Gunther Grass, who died this year, provoked outrage over a poem he published that criticized Germany for delivering nuclear submarines to Israel because of possible Israeli hostilities against Iran.